Grain header



Oct. 31, 1933.

E. E. BARTLETT 1,933,491

GRA IN HEADER Filed Feb. 10, 1952 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 ZZZ-15617176375 INVENTOR ATTORNEY Oct. 31, 1933. E. E. BARTLETT 1,933,491

GRAI'N HEADER Filed Feb. 10, 1932 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 INVENTOR 117.5. fiartZe/fii/ I ATTORNEY I Patented ct.31, 1933 I I I 1,933,491

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GRAIN HEADER Ernest E. Bartlett, George West, Tex., assignor to I B& B Manufacturing 00., Inc a corporation of Texas i i d 1 Application February 10,1932.- Serial No. 592,159

2 Claims. (Cl. 56 56) The object of the invention is to provide a" on opposite sides, the upper edges of which are double row grain header particularly adapted formed with rearward extending downwardly for use in connection with draft animals and inclined rails 21, at the forward ends of which I so arranged with respect to the manner in which are mounted the pulleys 22', the frame vha'ving 5 the draft animals are hitched that the latter upstanding bars 23 at the forward end united 60 may require no attention on the part of the opwith the rails 21 at the point wherethe pulleys ei'ator who may devote his whole time to the 22 are mounted. The head frame 23 is provided operation of the machine just as if it were with a duality of pairs of cooperating heading power driven; to provide a header of the kind cutters 24' and 25 mounted on' shafts 26 and 27 10 indicated which, while permitting adjustment of to which motion is communicated by shaft 28 5 the heading or cutting elements to suit the conby r a n of th beveled s ar nnections 29 bedition of the grain being operated upon, may tween them and the shafts 26 and 27. The for-- have a conveyor for conveying the cut grain to wardly diverging feed chains 30 by which grain a depository easily and conveniently emptied or is fed to the cutters are driven in common with 5 dumped when desired; and generally to provide h Shafts 6 and 27. I apparatus of the kind indicated which is of The p y 22 mentioned ve co st tu e simple form and susceptible of cheap manuidlers over which are trained the cables 31, the facture. I latter being anchored at their rear ends to arms With this object in view, the invention consists 2 rr on a shaft 33 j rn l i ri s in 20in a construction and combination of part of the rails 21. The latch lever 34 positioned adwhich a preferred embodiment is illustrated in lame t the Seat 16 constitutes manual means for the accompanying drawings but to hi h the actuating the rock shaft 33 by reason of the link invention is not to be restricted further than is co ion 35 With one of the arms 32. The imposed i hmitati et; out i the appended forward ends of the cables 31 are connected to 25 claim i take-up pulleys or spools 36 on the head frame,

In the drawings: t after having been trained over idlers 37 con- Figure 1 is a side elevational view of a header nected to nsions o the head frame. The constructed in accordance with the invention. head frame is operatively mounted on the frame Figure 2 is a top plan i w, 10 through the instrumentality of link bars 38 30' Figure 3 is a front elevational View looking at a d in parallel at and p votally con- Y the head frame. nected both with the head frame and with the Figures 4 and 5 are sectional views on the main Supporting frame so as to su e Verplanes indicated by t lines 4-4 and 5-5 tical position of the head frame as it is elevated pectively of Figure 2, I or lowered which may be accomplished by adjust- 35- The invention comprises a vehicular apparatus ment of the latch lever 34 S0 as let down comprising a frame 10 supported on the forward pull back on the cables 31. ground Wheels 11 and the rear caster wheel 12, The cutter actuating shafts 28 are chain driven the latter of which is provided with the vertias indicated at 39, these latter chains being driven cally disposed king spindle 14 mounted in an from a shaft 40 disposed transversely of the v 40 appropriate bearing in the frame and provided frame 10 and being in turn driven from one of with a cross bar 15, the extremities of which may the bull wheels 11 by means of a chain 41. constitute a foot rest for the operator who, 00- The two sets of heading knives 24 and 25 are cupying the seat 16, will determine the direction arranged to deposit on a common conveyor belt of movement of the machine by foot pressure on 42 mounted at the forward end on the drum 43 45 one side or the other of the cross bar toshift carried by the head frame and at the rear end the caster wheel correspondingly. on a similar drum, pinion driven, as indicated at The means of propulsion will comprise draft 24, from the same bull wheel 11 from which the animals which will be positioned'on opposite chain 41 is driven. sides of the frame and hitched to the single- The conveyor belt being connected at the for- I 50 trees 17 secured to a cross bar 18 with which the ward end to the header frame, this forward or frame is provided, the cross bar being in the receiving end is raised or lowered with the headnature of a whiffle-tree pivoted as at 19 to equaler frame but the rear end remains at a fixed eleize the drafton the two animals positioned on vation and is arranged to deposit on the dumpopposite sides of the frame. ing belt 45 mounted at the forward end on an 2 The frame is provided with the side guards 20 appropriate drum on the frame 10 and at the rear end on a correspondingly formed drum which is arranged for actuation with a hand crank 46.

With the draft animals hitched to the singletrees 17, they will follow behind the bull wheels in advancing the apparatus over a field of grain and their heads may be hitched to the vehicular apparatus, so that all the operator may have to do is to steer the device as a whole by so actuating the caster wheel 12 to cause the machine to progress in the desired direction, when the animals will follow the course pointed out by the machine.

The head frame is counterbalanced by means of springs 47 disposed on top of the rails 21 and anchored one end at the rear ends of the rails, being coupled at their ends to the cables 31 at appropriate points between the direction pulleys 22 and the arms 32. By this means the weight of the head frame during adjustment is for the most part taken off of the operator.

The main frame 10 is open between the rear end of the dumping belt 45 and the vertical plane of the king spindle 14, so as toprovide a discharge opening for the dumping belt from which the accumulation is removed after the machine has been brought to rest by the rotation of the crank 46, when the contents of the belt may be deposited in a suitable receptacle placed under the discharge opening.

The invention having been described, what is claimed as new and useful is:

1. A grain header comprising a vehicular apparatus embodying a frame having a heading mechanism at the forward end, the frame being provided with an opening at an intermediate point in its length, a dumping belt extending longitudinally of said frame and constituting the bottom thereof ahead of saidopening, and a conveyor belt disposed ahead of the dumping belt and arranged to carry the grain cut by the header to the dumping belt for discharge by the latter through the opening in said frame.

2. A grain header comprising a vehicular apparatus embodying a frame having a heading mechanism at the forward end, the frame being provided with an opening at an intermediate point in its length, a dumping belt extending longitudinally of said frame and constituting the bottom thereof ahead of said opening, and a conveyor belt disposed ahead of the dumping belt and arranged to carry the grain out by the header to the dumping belt for discharge by the latter through the opening in said frame, the heading mechanism being vertically adjustable and the forward end of the conveyor belt being movable therewith but the rear end remaining constantly in the same horizontal plane which is above the plane of the dumping belt.

ERNEST E. BARTLETT.

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